Shelby Bremer is a reporter for NBC 7 San Diego. She developed her passion for journalism during her time at NBC Chicago, where she began as an intern and spent nearly nine years as a producer.
Shelby has covered a wide range of breaking news and enterprise stories, but she is particularly proud of her political and investigative reporting. She enjoys using public records requests and in-depth research to uncover stories that hold institutions accountable. Her work has earned multiple Emmy Awards, a national Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and she was a duPont-Columbia Award finalist for her series “Left for Dead: Hit, Run, and Ignored,” which investigated the Chicago Police Department’s inaction on hit-and-run crashes.
Born and raised in the Chicago area, Shelby earned her bachelor’s degree in Communication with a Spanish minor from DePauw University. Outside of journalism, she enjoys yoga, traveling, reading, and making the most of the San Diego sunshine.
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